Sullivan, N.Y. – A Madison County man with the rare eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) has died.
The man is the first human death from the mosquito-borne virus in Central New York since a Salina man died in 2015. A 4-year-old girl from Oswego County died in 2011. Four others have died from the virus in the past five decades.
Statewide, the last EEE death reported was a man in Ulster County in 2024…